The twisted furniture of Michael Beitz

“Dining Table”

Sofas twisted into knots, picnic tables melting or a house that seems to collapse with our own feet. Other-worldly and colossal ideas that come to life and win a unique concept by the hands of the artist and designer, Michael Beitz.

Known for transforming pieces of wood furniture like sofas, chairs, and tables into twisting and undulating sculptures, the eccentric designer combines furniture design and meticulous craftsmanship with the more conceptual concerns of contemporary art. Taking advantage of the cultural significance of domestic furniture, Beitz ultimately subverts each object’s functionality fascinated by the phenomenal ability of an object to communicate what a human cannot.

His sculptures are the product of an attempt to describe the discomfort space, the distance that people create between themselves, being these often and figuratively associated with objects and the parallels between human emotional states and the mass produced design common objects we live with and within. This way, the human relationships are explored as well as social, personal, and material functions of conventional furniture in an extremely unconventional way. Serious objects that appear to us as something fun. There’s no need to dip into an artist thoughts when his art largely speaks for itself.

“Dining Table”

“its no picnic”

“Knot”

“Not Now”

“Picnic”

“Sunday Afternoon”

“Slapped”

“idiot”

“Grounded”

To better understand his work: www.michaelbeitz.com